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On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black men. https://t.co/Ev3QwhoU5f

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On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched dozens of Black Americans and razed the Black community, because a Black man attempted to vote. https://t.co/uD227Nfx0P

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On this day in 1901, a white mob in Hodgenville, KY, lynched Silas Esters and hung his body near the courthouse. Though members of the mob were named by the media, no one was held accountable. https://t.co/eTXsnS8I04

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On this day in 1933, a white mob of at least 2,000 in Princess Anne, MD, burned George Armwood to death. Four white men were ultimately tried for the lynching and acquitted by all-white juries. https://t.co/BRcThVxKzG

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On this day in 1920, a white mob lynched four innocent Black men named Fulton Smith, Ray Field, Ben Givens, and Sam Duncan in Macclenny, Florida. Days after, most of the Black community of Macclenny fled the area in fear of further violent attacks. https://t.co/fe2o9x2eIE

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On this day in 1868, violence erupted in Opelousas, Louisiana, when white residents resentful of African Americans' new voting rights attacked and killed hundreds of people. https://t.co/4OYbZneuF5

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On this day in 1919, enraged white mobs began a massacre of hundreds of innocent Black women, men, and children, after white men attempted to invade a Black farmer's union meeting. https://t.co/GywdLadmF5

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On this day in 1912, Frank Wigfall, a Black man incarcerated in Wyoming State Prison, was lynched by a mob of white prisoners. https://t.co/rso1hRpW2M

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On this day in 1910, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to work toward repealing the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black people born in the U.S. https://t.co/IJZOTjjdom

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On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast. https://t.co/npjUKgyZlz

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On this day in 1928, a levee broke during a Florida hurricane, killing thousands of Black farmworkers. Black victims were denied proper burials—their bodies were stacked in piles and burned. https://t.co/WKbS7YhZBF

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On this day in 1868, white mobs led by the local sheriff in Camilla, Georgia ambushed and attacked Black people and supporters at a political rally, killing at least 7 people in a mass lynching. https://t.co/soEUXXwvMe

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On this day in 2011, Georgia executed Troy Davis despite new evidence of his innocence. The evidence was so compelling that three of his jurors urged the government to stop the execution. https://t.co/LD5KMF1Lzx

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On this day in 1906, mobs of angry white men gathered in the streets of Atlanta to attack and kill dozens of innocent Black men on sight. https://t.co/azxU9zn6Sb

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On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough. https://t.co/S6kYcKZU8P

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On this day in 1912, a white mob in Princeton, West Virginia, lynched an innocent Black man named Robert Johnson after he was wrongly accused of assaulting a white girl. https://t.co/CtbGj0AohE

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On this day in 1875, armed white men from Clinton and Vicksburg, Mississippi, formed roving bands targeting Black men. An estimated 50 Black people were killed. https://t.co/OR8jNj858d

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On this day in 1874, a mob of 400 to 500 white men seized 16 Black men from the Gibson County Jail in Trenton, Tennessee, and lynched them. https://t.co/ggH8rjyj5k

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On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. https://t.co/i42tiT350U

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On this day in 1889, a Black man named Walter Asbury was lynched by a mob of white people in Chatham County, GA. His body was left hanging the entire next day to terrorize the Black community. https://t.co/2RaFMiOOez